DLC Will Kill the Gaming Industry
January 20th, 2012
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Gaming is an expensive hobby. Consoles can cost a lot of money, and that’s before the games and accessories are factored in. Videogame coupons can help cut a little bit off the top, of course, and Nintendo has made efforts to make sure to appeal – and be affordable – to as many customers as possible. In fact, their focus on the casual gamer and reasonable prices has actually made them come out on top in t
Alternative Games That Need Huge Screens
November 15th, 2011
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There’s one thing that racing game drivers, flight simulator enthusiasts and FPS fanatics want in common: huge-ass monitors.
Nothing brings out the full glory of an Aston Martin DBS screaming down the track, or a P-38 Lightning downing Japanese Zeros, than a 32-inch monitor with full HD capability. Simply put, plunking down a couple grand for an HDTV with 1080p goodness is one of the easiest ways to upgrade y
What to Do With Bad Video Game Purchases
November 14th, 2011
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No matter how hard the industry tries to change things, it is inevitable that there will always be bad video games. Whether they’re Ben 10 games based on some cartoon fad or a bad entry in one a beloved series, they exist and someone is going to get suckered into buying them. Naturally, this can be a problem if returning the game is not an option and just deleting it isn’t going to fix things. After all
Open-ended Games
November 10th, 2011
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Just like all the other gamers on the planet, we here at Console Kings have our lazy moments too.
No other gaming platform can encourage laziness like a console. Playing a PC requires you to sit down in a computer chair, often with an uncomfortable backrest and flimsy plastic excuses for armrests. Playing on a PSP requires your utmost concentration: you have to hold your precious unit tight, you have to squint at t
The Hardcore Genres That Can Make or Break A Console
November 4th, 2011
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In every generation of the console wars, in its every iteration, there have always been certain genres of game that make up the “core.” These are the genres that are considered some of the oldest and most hardcore of game types, giving a new machine the appeal it needs to convince early-adopters to shift. The casual market can’t be counted on to keep the console afloat at the start, so console com
Top Three Video Game Consoles
November 2nd, 2011
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To say that only men are addicted to video games is a lie. In fact, there are a number of females, teens and adults alike, who prefer video games over movie dates. Sounds weird, right? But there is truth to it.
How about you? How often do you find time to play video games? How hooked are you to such a diversion that you consider it routine to download and uninstall game from the console’s HD once you complete
The Greatest Racing Franchises
October 28th, 2011
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While they’ve had some presence on the PC front, it is hard to deny that the racing game genre is something that is best played on a console. Nobody is entirely sure why this is the case, but it could be that there’s something more visceral and “true” about controllers than keyboards when it comes to cars. Regardless, the console wars have always had car games as one of their major fronts, s
What’s So Important About A Plot, Anyway?
September 30th, 2011
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Some might choose to blame Final Fantasy VII. Ever since that game hit US shores, the gaming community has slowly become more accepting of RPGs and RPG elements. Then Diablo and its sequel came around and showed the Western gaming world just what was possible with judicious application of RPG elements, even outside the genre. It used to be just about experience tables, quests, and combat. Nowadays, though, the othe
Video Game Endorsers
September 28th, 2011
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The video game industry is a business and, like any other business, sometimes it needs a particular type of personality to endorse a title. This is particularly prevalent for sports titles, since the endorsement of someone like Tiger Woods can be a major difference maker for golf games and how well they do in the market.
Apart from golf games, a genre that has seen heavy endorsement would be football titles. This i
Why the X-Box 360 Isn’t a Glorified Paperweight in Japan
September 20th, 2011
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It is no secret that out of the current generation of consoles, it is the X-Box 360 that has come out worse for wear. Some analysts blame this on its failure to capture a substantial audience in Japan – as any console wars historian will know, a company that isn’t a major player in Japan is bound to fail in the rest of the world. The reasons may differ, but this has been a remarkably consistent tendency of
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